In the classroom, the workplace, and the home, more and more teachers, professionals, teaching assistants, peer tutors and parents have need of a practical, hands-on guide to helping their students, associates and teen-agers improve their composition skills. Designed to meet the needs of those who lack formal pedagogical training in composition, The Practical Tutor is an invaluable tool for writers at various levels in both formal and informal educational settings. The book alerts its readers to issues that frequently arise in the writing process, explores typical writing problems and their causes, summarizes recent research and thinking in the field of composition, and suggests strategies for helping writers overcome their difficulties. By analyzing samples of writers' compositions, and by including sample dialogues between tutors and writers, the book suggests, in the most practical terms, how to formulate questions that will spur writers to make their own corrections, and how to help them write critically and independently. Appropriate as both a course text in the training of peer tutors, or as a reference book for home or office, The Practical Tutor includes exercises and bibliographies for getting acquainted with writers, helping them generate ideas, shape essays, master basic writing mechanics, and even use computers to improve their work.

The Practical Tutor

Reference

Smith, Louise Z.

Meyer, Emily

Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford University Press

An invaluable resource for teachers, teaching assistants, peer tutors and parents, The Practical Tutor provides a comprehensive guide to improving composition. It explores typical writing problems and their causes, summarizes recent research and thinking in the field of composition, and suggests practical strategies for helping writers overcome their difficulties. Equally useful as a course text and as a reference book for teachers and tutors, it includes exercises for getting acquainted with writers and helping them to generate ideas, shape essays, master basic writing mechanics, write about literature and other texts, and even use computers to improve their work. It also offers suggestions for journal entries, independent writing, class activities, and further reading. Illustrated with representative compositions and sample dialogues between tutors and writers, The Practical Tutor shows, in the most precise terms, how to formulate questions that will spur students at all levels to make their own corrections and to write critically and independently.

College textbook for use in beginning English classes.

The Arlington Reader: Canons and Contexts

Bloom, Lynn Z.

Bedford/St.Martin's

The Brief Arlington Reader: Canons and Contexts

CP Enc1101 Minimum Competence Essays Summer 2005

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Bedford/St.Martins

Because textbooks tend to uproot readings from the conversations that prompted them, students are often left without much of the original context that would help them understand and interpret a text. Those additional voices are important, particularly when students are working with complex material. The Arlington Reader, Second Edition, offers class-proven readings and fresh and exciting new selections along with many of those voices brought back into the conversation. Each of the 9 thematic chapters includes essays plus related material such as reviews, response essays, quotations, photographs, and interviews. For instance, N. Scott Momaday's "The Way to Rainy Mountain" is followed by photos of Momaday and Rainy Mountain, excerpts from Momaday's other writings, and a piece by Paula Gunn Allen. This allows students to get a sense of the context from which these essays sprung and to make thematic connections of their own. It also brings fresh perspectives to instructors. In addition, each chapter includes linked readings in order to show students the importance of learning to distinguish and relate ideas, all at a very affordable low price.

The Arlington Reader: Contexts and Connections

Arlington Reader 2e & Rules for Writers with Tabs 6e with 2009 MLA and 2010 APA Updates

Hacker, Diana

Arlington Reader 2e & Bedford Researcher 2e

Palmquist, Mike

What do you look for in a thematic composition reader? Certainly a combination of classic essays that you think every student should read as well as fresh contemporary selections that showcase some of the best contemporary writing and writers. Probably an array of relevant themes that appeal to students even as they point toward the disciplinary thinking and writing students will have to perform as undergraduates. Likely the kind of writing apparatus that moves students from critical reading to thoughtful writing and revising. The Arlington Reader offers all this — and more. It is the only thematic reader to pay attention to the contexts and connections that give rise to great writing, with contextual documents that illuminate some of the most celebrated essays in the composition canon, and paired readings that stimulate comparative critical thinking and writing. Further, it is the least expensive and most manageable full-service thematic reader on the market, with a price students can afford and in a size they'll be happy to carry in their backpacks.

Audits of Meaning: a Festschrift in Honor of Ann E. Berthoff

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

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The Practical Tutor

The Practical Tutor

The Arlington Reader: Canons and Contexts

The Brief Arlington Reader: Canons and Contexts

CP Enc1101 Minimum Competence Essays Summer 2005

The Arlington Reader: Contexts and Connections

Arlington Reader 2e & Rules for Writers with Tabs 6e with 2009 MLA and 2010 APA Updates

Arlington Reader 2e & Bedford Researcher 2e

The Arlington Reader: Contexts and Connections

Audits of Meaning: a Festschrift in Honor of Ann E. Berthoff